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SILVERTON, Ohio - A father has been arrested for raping his six-month-old son and infecting him with HIV. Police say that Lenny Love, 29, from Silverton, Ohio, knew he had the virus when he raped his son in March. He was arrested on Friday and charged with two counts of rape, one count of felonious assault and one count of possession ...

ORLANDO, FL - She would have been convicted on "CSI." The evidence to convict Casey Anthony in the tragic death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, was there. More than enough to convict, everyone thought - everyone but the 12 jurors who had the only votes that counted. But this isn't TV, and the real world was shocked Tuesday when a Florida ...

DETROIT – Forsyth County, Ga. Sheriff Ted Paxton saw the 2011 Chevrolet Caprice Police Patrol Vehicle (PPV) at several events last year and was impressed enough to be among early law enforcement customers. The PPVs began patrol in Cumming, Ga. in May. “With its emphasis on the ergonomically designed seats for officer comfort, and enhanced safety features, the Caprice is a ...

BREAKING NEWS: Casey Anthony escaped the death penalty after she was today cleared of the brutal murder of her two-year-old daughter Caylee. The 25-year-old mother was found not guilty of drugging her young daughter, suffocating her and dumping her body in overgrown woodland after a sensational six-week trial, which has seen a family torn about by accusations of rape and incest. ...

BROOKSVILLE, FL -- A Hernando County sheriff's deputy is dead after a high-speed chase through four counties early Sunday morning. Deputy John C. Mecklenburg, 35, died after his patrol car crashed into a tree and burst into flames while he was trying to stop a driver police spotted heading the wrong way on U.S. 41 in Brooksville. Mecklenburg, a U.S. Army ...

GRIFFIN, GA — Spalding County Sheriff Dee Stewart died early Sunday, likely from complications from injuries suffered in a car crash last month, the county coroner said. Coroner Sonny Foster said Stewart was pronounced dead at 4:09 a.m. Sunday. He was 63. Stewart had been in the hospital since the wreck on June 23 and likely died of "complications that he ...

BERKS COUNTY, PA - The Berks County man suspected of shooting and killing a deputy sheriff Wednesday night left a suicide note in his yard two days before heading into surrounding woods and getting into a fatal shootout with officers, court records say. State police in Hamburg identified the deputy sheriff as 28-year-old Kyle D. Pagerly and the suspect as Matthew ...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa — An elderly Iowa woman has died following a crash involving a police cruiser. Omaha television station WOWT reports that 88-year-old Katherine Schmidt, of Oakland, Iowa, died after the car she was riding in was hit by a Council Bluffs police cruiser Monday night. Police say Schmidt's car was turning into a Council Bluffs casino parking lot around ...

FALL RIVER, PA - SWAT team members in Pennsylvania yesterday killed a career criminal suspected of killing a Fall River toddler and Yarmouth man execution style and critically wounding the boy’s mother and two others — while in Fall River, neighbors mourned the death of the youngest victim, who would have turned 3 this month, and prayed for his mother’s recovery. ...

MEMPHIS, TN — Authorities were investigating Monday after a Memphis police officer and another person were shot to death at a hotel in the middle of the city's entertainment district filled with people celebrating the Fourth of July. In a news release, police said a suspect was in custody and he was hospitalized due to non-critical injuries sustained during his arrest. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A BART police officer shot and killed a man on the platform of the Civic Center Station in San Francisco late Sunday after the man used a bottle as a weapon and drew a knife, transit agency officials said. What started as a common police call - a report of a man with an open bottle of alcohol ...

BANGOR, Maine -- A murder suspect who escaped from a Maine psychiatric hospital by climbing over a fence has been captured in a neighboring city after about 15 hours on the lam. Officers found 29-year-old William Hall walking down a street in Brewer at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, hours after someone fitting his description swam across the Penobscot River. He was about ...

MIAMI - Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito, who has been in a heated, year-long dispute with two elected leaders seeking his resignation, said Wednesday that city officials offered him $400,000 in January to “leave his position as chief quietly,” a year before his expected retirement. Exposito would not say who made the offer, referring only to “representatives of the city of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco police shot and wounded a wanted parolee during a gunbattle Wednesday morning in the Western Addition, authorities said. The suspect, 38-year-old Roselyndo Nagayo Sicat, was being treated at San Francisco General Hospital after being shot near the corner of Gough and Ellis streets shortly before 8 a.m. Police said he was expected to survive. Officers had ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon House voted Wednesday to give tribal police the same off-reservation authority as non-tribal officers, despite objections from county sheriffs who said the measure would open the door to lawsuits and give tribal officers unprecedented authority. Representatives approved the measure on a 33-25 vote after GOP representatives also argued the bill doesn’t have enough oversight to ensure ...

SWEETWATER, Texas (AP) — A father abandoned his 4-year-old son along a West Texas highway, and the injured boy spent several hours alone in the dark before a passing motorist picked him up, police said. Carlos Rico, 22, stopped his car along a cactus-lined stretch of Interstate 20 near Sweetwater at about 3 a.m. Tuesday and "threw the boy out of ...

PACIFIC GROVE, CA - Jacob Scott Miller, the 25-year-old son of Sheriff Scott Miller, was arrested Tuesday on narcotics charges after the sheriff's own drug team served a search warrant in Pacific Grove. Jacob Miller resides in a separate apartment on his father's property. Cmdr. Jerry Teeter said Miller was arrested at the residence on suspicion of possessing methamphetamine for sale ...

SPRINGFIELD — Nine people, ages 12 to 19, are facing hate crime charges in connection with the beating of an openly gay man in Springfield. Sgt. John Delaney said the beating occurred shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday as the 30-year-old victim walked down a Springfield street. Delaney said the victim told police he was then attacked by the suspects who knocked ...

SEATTLE - Everybody's done it. You place an item on top of a car only to remember later — after you or someone else has driven off. But when the forgetful individual is a Seattle police officer and the item is a semi-automatic rifle, it's more than a little embarrassing. It's also the focus of an internal investigation. Seattle police spokesman ...

TEMPLE - Sunday, at about 10:00 a.m., new Police Officer Jacob Tatum was on patrol, on his third day on the job, with his Field Training Officer, Jason Gilpin. At that time, dispatch advised officers by radio of a life-endangering incident at Wildflower Villas Apartments, 5227 West Adams Avenue. Officers Tatum and Gilpin were already at the apartment complex on an ...